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arrow Woodbourne Correctional Facility PrisonInsight.com In ballooning outbreaks at about a third of the state’s 52 correctional facilities, nine incarcerated people have died in a three-week span and more than 1,000 incarcerated people have been infected in that time, according to a WNYC/Gothamist analysis of data from the State’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.  The rate of new infections in prisons is now twice that of the general public, the analysis shows. With COVID-19 cases spiking and the looming threat of a new, more infectious COVID-19 varia...

 E-Mail A new report from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health offers recommendations aimed at federal, state, and local policymakers to address the opioid epidemic during the pandemic, which has seen sharp increases in fatal and nonfatal overdoses. The recommendations detail policy solutions in the areas of data and surveillance, harm reduction, and treatment, with special considerations for vulnerable populations. The report, Saving Lives from Overdose During a Pandemic, draws from peer-reviewed research on opioid overdoses, as well as recommendations from the...